Since nobody else would, she liked to make the point that she was an adult.Charles kept quiet. He didn’t know whether his embarrassment at Kath’s ...entioning their sexual activities to her family was because they were her family or because they were white. Although it was the 21st century, although they had a marriage license, he still felt a frisson of fear about fucking a white woman south of the Mason-Dixon line. And, really, although her family knew that those activities were part of. .. ?”“How do you do it?” he asks as they come face to face. His breath close to her face is returned by her ragged on his.“Do what?“Not be scared.”“I find it hard that you are, Mr. Macho,” she says smiling for the first time in many days.“Oh I’m scared, you can believe that,” he says in a voice that only confirms the words. “We’ve seen some shit, but whatever the fuck that is it’s entirely something I’m seriously fucking scared shitless of.”“Well, I would never have guessed that of you,” Katie. What I didn't tell him was that I had no intention of leaving after I dropped her off.Evie had left earlier in the day; she, of course, would be sharing Christmas with her mom. That afforded Inez and me the opportunity to spend the night before Christmas together in an empty apartment, just the two of us. And we didn't do a whole lot of sleeping. After one particularly torrid lovemaking session in the wee hours, we both drifted off to sleep. At around seven-thirty in the morning, shortly after. "How many times did you cum?" The idea of a threesome seemed to fascinate her."Who knows? I lost track. Who counts?" Me. But I guess I'm just into numbers. The more the better." The bigger the better, too! 'Quality has a quantity all its own.'" As soon as I said it, I thought I had probably futzed the last one. Fortunately, Neeka wasn't going to let me sidetrack the conversation into an analysis of aphorisms."Would you like to do the same thing with me and Jim?"That was pretty direct,.